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Lilish "The young"

Lilish Iledamn Isil'lassë (a.k.a. The Young)

Physical Description

General Physical Condition

Lilish was, like everyone in her groupe, pretty emaciated due to their everlasting wandering. According to her surrounding she already presented facial feature of the Ohtainn transformation.

Apparel & Accessories

Lilish was fond of large and long clothes. She stated to her mother that she felt wiser when wearing them.

Mental characteristics

Personal history

Lilish was born few years before her ship was put to sea during the Ohtainn exile. Considered as a gift by her kind, she received a lot of attention and was able to learn from her elders about several subjects. unfortunately, the particular point of view of the banished make her only knew the Elrim as the one who banished her family and prevented them from using magic. Hardworking and joyful, and quite empathetic, she aimed to lighten the mood around her. During a short passage in a wild and deep forest, untouched by civilisation, she heard a mesmerizing sound. Doing a small investigation, she encountered a bird that sang so well it bring a soothing joy in the deepest part of her heart. When she returned to her nomad family, she started humming the bird's song.   Her mother cheered her for her music and encouraged her to follow this path. She advised her to put lyrics in her creations. The little elve, quite unsure about it, started to train her voice and follow her mother advice.   Two years after hearing the bird, she sang her first song, "Iledr ya maloth " (Across the forest in Sundavar). The song was designed to be performed while walking and, given Lilish's young age, it was quite simple. But after few performance where Lilish sang alone, everyone in her group followed her.   When the group reached the sea and the small harbor with their ship lash up in the bay, Lilish fell deeply in love with that vast lake that her elders call "The Sea". She was that moved by the sunlight reflecting everywhere near the shore that she sat in the sand and instantly wrote a song: "Aea-yuzill" (My dearest water). She sang it to her group but that song, although emotionally strong, wasn't as entertaining as the previous one. She was deeply disappointed by herself. Her mother, knowing her very well, hugged her and explained that her previous song has some rythm, while this one could be compared as figurative poetry: If she wanted to be praised by everyone she haven't to make her songs hard to understand, but rather simple. She further explained that peoples like being capable of singing a song, again and again, especially during the dire moment that was this exile.   Lilish was lost. She could't grasp how to complete such an achievement. That thought haunted her when she was boarding her ship. She stood on the same spot for three day and three night. On the fourth day, while fetching some food for her breakfast, she heard a young ohtainn singing alone. The song was about a ship that sailed and went around the elrim empire, with a short story for each harbor it stopped. She thought that the song was quite lame, until two others young ohtainn accompanied him with their voices during the chorus. Ultimately, she found the song funny enough and quite entertaining. She started to listen to them from time to time.   That's with that discovery Lilish composed her next song: "Ahî! yn ya ſèt" (Raw until the shore). After a harsh tempest that almost set their ship off track, she started to sing it. Every single person started to follow her. Thrilled about her new found type of musique, she started working on severals other compositions like "Seilla agrar mè ya aealoſ" (I will miss the sea), [Idla aya aealo im] (Fishes knows best) and "Rihy seilla sè vò u a ry tèhh me" (When i'll set foot in this new world).   After few weeks, her group joined the other groups of exiled to the other shore, Near a human kingdom. Lilish wrote a few songs before mysteriously disappearing. One ohtain sweared that she saw her talking to a Fae in a mushroom circle, into the forest. After numerous research across few years, her parents finally conceded that she might have died when the same ohtainn that affirmed she saw her was judged clinicaly mad.

Gender Identity

Because of the harsh life she led, Lilish hadn't the time to think about such matter.

Sexuality

Because of the harsh life she led, Lilish hadn't the time to think about such matter but, according to her mother, she wasn't interested in boys of her age, and she didn't seems that interested to girls of her age too. She just liked writing song. We can only guess that, maybe, she was asexual aromantic.

Education

Everything Lily knows was taught to her by her elders. Sh was quite interested by the Ohtainn language, and the Sundavar one too. According to her mother, she spoke well.

Employment

Lilish was the first known bard of the Isil'lassë bloodline.

Accomplishments & Achievements

  • Is the first known bard of the Isil'lassë bloodline.
  • Wrote the first Isil'lassë shanties, and therefore the first ohtan shanties.
  • She is still the most productive bard Ohta'mando ever known at her age (12 yo)
  • She was the most youngest praised personality until the vision of Celcena Ohta'mando .
  • She was the youngest personnality with a statue until the vision of Celcena Ohta'mando .
  • Failures & Embarrassments

    Her second song led her to an existential crisis. (See personal history)

    Intellectual Characteristics

    Lilish was very good at seeing and making pattern of sound in her music which led to a peaceful harmony.

    Personality Characteristics

    Motivation

    Lilish never ceased to lighten the mood of people around them. Her mother stated that she seemed "ten times alive" during her performance. Her mother also stated that Lillish claimed endlessly that "if happiness wasn't in everyone face, then bad moods arise and fight occurs."

    Vices & Personality flaws

    According to her surrounding, Lilish was pretty "Showy."
    Alignment
    Lawful Good
    Current Status
    Deceased
    Current Location
    Species
    Ethnicity
    Honorary & Occupational Titles
    "The Young"
    Age
    12
    Circumstances of Death
    Died of harsh weather condition. (Supposed)
    Birthplace
    Near Sslyhtò' shore, at its east
    Place of Death
    Near Lodaeron (Supposed)
    Family
    Children
    Pronouns
    she/her
    Gender
    female
    Eyes
    White
    Hair
    Short blue
    Skin Tone/Pigmentation
    Pale violet
    Height
    1.4 m
    Quotes & Catchphrases
    "I felt wiser wearing clothes for the elde. It is like i'm suddensly become inspired." "If happiness isn't in everyone face, then bad moods arise and fight occurs."
    Known Languages
    Sundavar, Old Darnassian/Proto-Thalassian

    Comments

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    Jan 28, 2022 23:17

    Interesting character. I wonder is there some form of magic to her singing as you mentioned that their family was normally forbidden from praticing it?

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    Feb 7, 2022 18:15

    Hmm, presumed dead after talking to a Fae in a mushroom circle you say. perhaps we shall see this character again, mysteriously un-aged, in a couple of decades (or perhaps more aged than the absence can account for in just a couple of years). Who can say?   Overall interesting story with many opportunities for world building or plot expansion should you so choose.

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    Feb 11, 2022 14:23

    'Death in a mushroom circle' is a way to go! Overall a nice character and a lot of information to make them a believable character. Maybe under some of the headers you could add a bit more - maybe even something narrative like a quote or a piece of prose to show how their traits manifest in their dealings with others. You could also throw out "Failures & Embarrassments" because you got that already in her personal history, as you say :)

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    Feb 18, 2022 13:23 by Amélie I. S. Debruyne

    Nice article. She seems like a sweet child, a shame she disappeared :( Though seems like there is a chance of her suddenly reappearing :p